Why is Grinder a stereotypical hacker who loves causing trouble for others?
I can appreciate peoples’ desire not to have every programmer-type character in every book be an undisciplined jerk… but let’s not forget that, for the first batch of Wraith Squadron pilots, Wedge did concentrate on people who had wrecked their careers one way or another. Grinder follows the hacker stereotype not because all hackers are that way, but because the initial squadron roster called for troublemakers.